Police nab suspect in urine attacks on Bronx MTA workers

The New York City Police Department asked the public for assistance with locating and identifying the individual in the attached video and photograph in connection to two assaults that occurred within the confines of the 40 Precinct and Transit District 12.

Police have apprehended a man they believe splattered two Bronx MTA employees with urine earlier this month, officials said Friday.

The 21-year-old suspect was arrested on an unrelated groping incident at a Brooklyn train station Wednesday, and detectives identified him as a person of interest in the back-to-back April 12 incidents in Mott Haven, sources with knowledge of the case said. His name was not immediately disclosed.

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The suspect was being questioned Friday. No charges were immediately filed as investigators prepared line ups, officials said.

“I’m very grateful to NYPD for its diligence in arresting the suspect in these despicable attacks," said Andy Byford, president of the New York City Transit Authority, adding that by law it is a serious crime to attack an MTA employee. "We will do whatever we can to help prosecutors obtain the strongest possible conviction in this case,” he said.

The pee-petrator splattered a 43-year-old female train conductor on an uptown No. 6 train at the Brook Ave.-E. 138th St. station. He struck again about 45 minutes later, dumping urine on MTA bus driver Trellis Robinson as she sat behind the wheel of a Bx1 bus at the Grand Concourse and 138th St., about 15 blocks from where the first incident occurred.

The attacks caused Transport Workers Union Local 100 officials to instruct subway and bus employees to be wary of their surroundings.

Transit cops nabbed the suspect after he allegedly grabbed the buttocks of a 31-year-old woman at the Flatbush Ave./Brooklyn College station, sources said. He was charged with forcible touching and is on Rikers Island, held on $1,500 bail.

“Pleased to report we have arrested the suspect in this case and he will be charged with felony assault in the two attacks against @MTA employees,” NYPD Transit Chief Edward Delatorre wrote on Twitter.

Transit Workers union President Tony Utano said the grab was “great news for transit workers.”

“A twisted individual targeted two of our members and committed vile attacks while they were simply doing their jobs. He needed to be caught and locked up,” Utano said. " But the larger problem remains. Transit workers are getting assaulted, harassed and abused, physically and verbally, all the time. The city has to do much more to protect us."